Abu Muthana al-Midani

Abu Muthana al-Midani (died 28 December 2015) was an al-Nusra Front leader.

Biography
Abu Muthana al-Midani was from Saudi Arabia, and he joined the radical jihadist group al-Qaeda. al-Midani had a track record of fighting against the United States in the Afghanistan War and then the Iraq War, killing American soldiers in both countries as a part of the radical Islamist resistance. When the Syrian Civil War broke out, he decided to join the al-Nusra Front and fight against the Syrian Arab Republic, and he was able to go to Syria, having never been arrested by his home country for any terror offenses. On 28 December 2015 he was killed in action in an offensive in Aleppo Governorate.